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Windows Photo Gallery tools are grayed out

There seems to be a problem with Windows Photo Gallery. I connect my camera to my PC (Vista) and select the option to "Open device to view files using Windows Explorer". When I find and open a photo I used to get edit op …

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MOVIEMAKER PROBLEMS!

Greetings and Happy New Year 2016, I'm having trouble uploading 5 minute video clip from movie maker to facebook. Before having this problem, I would save video clip and press the facebook icon on movie maker and that wo …

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No option to install Windows Essentials!?!?

I get the following problem whenever I try to install Windows Essentials. The menu comes up to ask me what I want to install but there are no options to install anything. I have tried the web package and the offline inst …

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Cannot publish any movie on movie maker to Facebook

I tried many things but i get always the same message: an errorcode: 0x8004889C And if i can publish the movie says movie maker: cannot connect to Facebook I use .wlmp to save the movies And i also have the 2012 version …

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Bob in Montana

Movie maker in Windows Essentials, ( I have widows 7) will not save my movie. It will complete 17% and then freeze up. I successfully saved the project and when I reviewed it there were a couple of items to be fixed. I w …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 31, 2015

I cannot save the Project in the Windows Movie Maker

Original Title: Bob in Montana Movie maker in Windows Essentials, ( I have widows 7) will not save my movie. It will complete 17% and then freeze up. I successfully saved the project and when I reviewed it there were a c …

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Move Maker, single frame advance

In old Movie Maker / other programs, you can frame by frame shuffle back and forth to find the exact frame you want to cut it on. This used to be done with the roller on the mouse. Is there a way to do this with Windows …

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WLE 2012 installation brought error message

I am operating Windows 7. I uninstalled Windows Essentials 2011 and installed Windows Essentials 2012. At the end of the installation the following message popped up: "missing client HIP object". Live Mail 2012 seems to …

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Moive Maker is not starting

I use windows 10 and every time I want to open movie maker i keep getting a pop up saying, "The program cant start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer." Ive tried to reinstall it and ive also tried to fix …

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Windows Movie Maker to MP4 video problems

When I make a movie on Windows Movie Maker it works fine in the Movie Maker until I try to save it into an mp4 file. It then, when playing in the mp4, shakes and has video problems such as black areas appearing for short …

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Need help editing because of error 0x87260103

I would really appreciate any advice in fixing my problem. I'm trying to upload a video to YouTube from Windows Live Movie Maker by converting my WLMP file to an MP4 or WMV file and every time after 99% of the conversion …

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